Datsy

We live on the stage
Performing
For the one
Looking down
Critical eyes
Pencil writing
Pausing in ways
Seemingly offensive
For someone
Paying
A full price ticket —
Not laughing
More
Schadenfreude
Than expected
And so
We live our lives
Not for impressing others looking back
But ourselves
Viewing inward
At the man on the stage —
Not others
More of ourselves
To impress